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All,
When I paste a drawing into writer there are no options for centering it left-right on the page. Surely there must be a better way to do this than dragging it around until it looks centered. Can anyone tell me how?
Thanks,
-Bill
Hi 
I use the left-right-centred buttons same as for text
Recently i found the right-click "Arrange" and "Align" that give more options.
Regard from
Tom
When I highlight the drawing the text object menu disappears and is replaced by the drawing object menu. When I click View > Tool Bars > Text object, the text object tool bar does come back, but all of its buttons are ghosted.
When I right-click the drawing the Alignment menu has one item in it that says "<No selection possible>" and the Arrange menu only has Bring to front, Bring forward, Send backwards, Send to back, and To background.
I am using LO 4.0.3.3 and the drawings are pasted in from LO Draw and Impress.
BTW, pasting drawings into Writer is the correct way to get them from Draw to Writer isn't it?
Thanks,
-Bill
left-right-center buttons disappear and are replaced by a bunch of buttons
When I paste a drawing into writer there are no options for centering it left-right on the page. Surely there must be a better way to do this than dragging it around until it looks centered. Can anyone tell me how?
o Either select the drawing and go to Format | Object > | Position and Size... | Position and Size | Position, or right-click | Position and Size... | Position and Size | Position.
o There you can find various positioning options in the drop-down menus, including Center.
When I highlight the drawing the text object menu disappears and is replaced by the drawing object menu. When I click View > Tool Bars > Text object, the text object tool bar does come back, but all of its buttons are ghosted.
Perhaps that's because your drawing is not a text object.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
Hi William,
William Drago schrieb:
All,
When I paste a drawing into writer there are no options for centering it
left-right on the page. Surely there must be a better way to do this
than dragging it around until it looks centered. Can anyone tell me how?
Use the Position&Size dialog from its context menu. It allows a large varieties of settings. For example you can center to page or center to text area.
Kind regards
Regina
Do you first position the mouse at the spot you desire the image to
go?;
at this point, all the menu items should be clickable, including
the alignments.
When at this point, 'paste' the image from the 'clipboard' to the
document -
well that works for me [granted, I've never up-dated since 3.4
]
All,
Okay, the Position and Size feature does the trick. Thank you very much...
-Bill
Hi
I'm not sure if there is an incorrect way of getting drawings from Draw into Writer. There are probably a whole bunch of different ways for different requirements. I think it's usually a case of keep using 1 that works until you fancy a change or find a better way to do what you want.
I've never pasted from Draw into Writer. I've pasted Pngs, Jpgs, Gifs from external apps but none from Draw. So far everything i have done in Draw has been able to stay in there for best effect.
Regards from
Tom
I always anchor the image as character, then it can be manipulated as a character (so just center it as you would a line of text).
Thanks for the suggestion, Peter, but that doesn't work either. I can anchor the image as character, but as soon as I select the image to center it the text object menu disappears and the image object menu replaces it. If I use Format from the menu bar the expected options for alignment are gone.
The only thing that works is Position & Size. And it works quite well, so I'll stick with that...
Regards,
-Bill
You place the cursor in the paragraph / line that contains the image and then "center" the paragraph. At that point, you do not need to mess with the object to center it.
Hi
"If it works. Use it" as Ensign Harry Kim said.
I usually find it's better to Anchor "to page" rather than the default "to paragraph" although each seems to have scenarios that suit them better than the rest and all of them are plenty good enough to use all the time until you start spotting which is better when.
When it's "to paragraph" the image moves around when the paragraph moves around so i find some pages suddenly have more images than others. Although that is definitely an advantage sometimes.
Regards from
Tom
My usage is almost always to place an image on a line by itself with a caption below. In this context, anchor as character is perfect and seems to work best. Same when I want to place images in tables. The answer is very different when I want the image to float to the right or left of a paragraph of text as the text. At that point, I think that I usually anchor to the paragraph, but I would need to go back and check the few documents where that was what I wanted to do... So, Mr. Davies, your point is well taken. Intent surely drives how it should be anchored.
Hi
My main point was that all different ways work.
The 'best' or 'correct' way is simply whichever you choose to use, or like using, or feel comfortable with. To quote The Levellers "There only one way of life, and that's your own"
That's one reason i prefer OpenSource. It allows you to keep using your own way and doesn't keep forcing you to learn new ways or change radically. (Although installing Cinnamon or Mate to stick with Gnome and avoid the Unity interface in Ubuntu might be a pain but at least the option is there, to go back to the old ways)
It's nice to have other options to explore and some might even be 'better' for a particular purpose but only if you are happy enough using them. Thanks for letting me know why i prefer the options i do. I hadn't thought about it but that is exactly the way i usually use images.
Regards from
Tom